Plymouth Meeting

Plymouth Meeting is a census-designated place in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The area was founded by Quaker immigrants from Plymouth, Devon, England on 23 June 1686. The Marquis de Lafayette's army was encamped near the Plymouth meetinghouse the night before the Battle of Barren Hill during the American Revolutionary War on 19 May 1778. During the 1810s, the strongly abolitionist Quakers began sheltering runaway slaves in the town. The town grew during the 1900s due to the advent of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the Plymouth Meeting Mall, high-rise and garden apartment complexes, industries, and office buildings. In 2010, Plymouth Meeting had a population of 6,177 people.